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"A Remix is new media created from old media. It was made using these three techniques: copy, transform and combine. It’s how you remix. You take existing songs, you chop them up, you transform the pieces, you combine them back together again, and you’ve got a new song, but that new song is clearly comprised of old songs. But I think these aren’t just the components of remixing. I think these are the basic elements of all creativity. I think everything is a remix, and I think this is a better way to conceive of creativity." Kirby Ferguson

Pirate culture is a society that allows and encourages derivative works by combining or editing existing materials to produce a new product. A pirate culture would be permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holders.

Be a magpie, take from everywhere, but assemble the scraps and shiny things you’ve lifted in ways that not only seem inventive, but really do make new meanings.

Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.